Tuesdays with Morrie

"You can't substitute material things for love or for time together."

"Find a way to acknowledge your emotions without being overpowered by them."

"I want to be remembered as someone who cared."

"Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it."

"Money is not a substituent for tenderness."

"I'm in the enviable position of being able to say I've lived a good life."

"Once you settle the question of dying, it's easier to live."

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves."

"It's strange to suddenly feel your mortality."

"Maybe part of what I'm trying to do right now is to let the people I've known best see who I really am."

"We are in such a hurry. We want to grab everything."

"Be like a student. Go to classes."

"People are only mean when they're threatened."

"Have you ever really had a teacher?"

"What is it you'd like to learn?"

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others."

"If you are friends, you talk about everything. Not just the big things, but all of it."

"This is our last class together. It's been an honor to spend these last days with you."

"I have lots of things to say. I'm a talker."

"Monday is for the rest of the world. Tuesday is for us."

"The worst part of my disease is that I can still think."

"I'm becoming more spiritual. I'm becoming more wise."

"When you're in bed for so long, you hear your own heart. You really hear it. It sounds like someone's at your door."

"You are not alone in your suffering."

"In the end, it's not going to be how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away."

"We have a tendency to not be very kind to people who are dying."

"This is what I wanted all my life. To be useful."

"Death is the only thing we know is going to happen. And yet it's the thing we talk about the least."

"Do the kind of work you'd do if you were independently wealthy."

"You know what? Now I'm not afraid."